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Mobility: With Maruti making 3 crore cars so far, India is Suzuki’s second-largest market worldwide

April 3, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With Maruti Suzuki India Ltd (MSIL) creating a record of manufacturing three crore cars so far, Suzuki Motor Corporation has reached the milestone even faster than it achieved on its home ground, the Japanese automaker said on Wednesday. Suzuki’s subsidiary—MSIL—has achieved accumulated automobile production of 3 crore units in India by […]

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Disaster: Taiwan returns to work hours after 7.2 temblor leaves seven dead

April 3, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Taiwan’s strongest earthquake rocking the entire island nation in recent history, measuring 7.2 on the Richter Scale, left at least seven people dead, over 700 injured, and 77 stranded on Wednesday morning rush hours. By noon, however, the metro station in the busy northern Taipei suburb of Beitou was again buzzing […]

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“Senseless”: India rejects Chinese attempts to ‘rename’ places in Arunachal Pradesh

April 2, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A day after External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar pooh poohed China for ‘renaming’ 30 places in Arunachal Pradesh, the Ministry of External Affairs on Tuesday firmly rejected such attempts as “senseless” and asserted that assigning “invented names” will not alter the reality that the northeastern state “is, has been, and will […]

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Pakistan: Imran still most popular, PM Shehbaz may not last 5 years, says IIF

April 2, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Pakistan may miss its targets in the current financial year as well, and the unstable country’s biggest challenge now is fiscal consolidation and reforms amid a weak coalition government and political instability stemming from accusations of electoral fraud, the Washington-based Institute of International Finance (IIF) has said. It also said that […]

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The Dragon: To compete with China, India must focus on manufacturing

April 2, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: There is no other way to counter China on the economic front than to start manufacturing in a big way, something ignored by the governments until 2014 when Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said on Monday. Dr. Jaishankar, a former Ambassador to China, acknowledged […]

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Security: After Pakistan, Lanka and the Maldives, China tries to pit B’desh against India

April 1, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Like the US-led West, China is also trying to influence the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, and weaken the hold that Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government has come to exercise on the rising India since 2014. So, after manipulating Pakistan for decades, and then Sri Lanka and the Maldives to go anti-India […]

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Pakistan: Terrorist outfits claim only 20% of 245 attacks in 3 months!

April 1, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Terrorism as a state-sponsored policy of Pakistan, introduced by military dictator General Ziaul-Haq in the 1980s to divert attention from the hanging of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, is now yielding results. Once terror-nursing was a ‘national industry’; now it’s also privatized, even as a cottage enterprise! Terrorism is a national industry in […]

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Rally at Ramlila Maidan reflects Opposition’s poverty of ideas

April 1, 2024 Vinayak Barot

(Guru Prakash) More than a rally of the Opposition, Sunday’s meeting at the Ramlila ground reminded the people of India of a weekend lunch get-together of the sons and daughters of the political elite at the Delhi Gymkhana Club. There is a growing realisation of the widespread poverty of intelligence in the unstructured speeches and […]

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Roving Periscope: In the Pannun case, India forces the US to ‘backtrack’

April 1, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: America’s recent efforts to corner India in the Khalistani extremist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun case may have boomeranged, and Washington is now trying to control the potential damage amid indications that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s NDA government is set to return to power in June for a third straight term—while the fate […]

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Banking: Sector now profitable and credit growth up, says PM Modi

April 1, 2024 virendra pandit

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said India’s banking sector has now become profitable and credit growth has been increasing because of the efforts of his government and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). Addressing an event to mark the 90th anniversary of the central bank, he said a lot of work will […]